"What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?"

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Source : Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

Jane Addams

#Race Quotes #Failing Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.”

Source : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”
“A man's got to know his limitations.”
“When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.”
“Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.”
“I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.”
“The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.”
“I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'”

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